Juanita Phillips (born 1963^[1]) is an Australian newsreader and currently presenter of ABC Sydney's 7:00pm news bulletin ABC News, which is broadcast throughout New South Wales.

In the early 1990s, Phillips worked at TVQ-10 Brisbane as a reporter and anchor. She made her national debut as regular anchor on Ten Eyewitness News weekend late edition (from Ten's Brisbane studios) in 1993. A year later, Phillips moved to Sydney to join Ron Wilson on Ten Sydney's 5:00pm news, succeeding Sandra Sully. Phillips was Ten Sydney's lead anchorwoman for two years, succeeded by Jessica Rowe.

In 1997, following a stint as anchor with Sky News Australia, Phillips moved to London where she worked as a news anchor at BBC World while at the same time running a London cafe. She later moved to CNN International, also in London, working mainly as co-anchor on CNN Today before returning to Australia to initially present the ABC's weekend news in Sydney. In 2003 she moved to co-anchor weekdays with Tony Eastley before becoming the sole 7:00pm anchor. During 2007, Phillips wrote a number of articles for The Bulletin including an article on animal rights activist Lyn White that caused some controversy [1].

On 30 November 2007, Phillips suffered an on-air coughing fit while reading a 7pm state bulletin, forcing the ABC to switch to a simulcast of the Victoria state bulletin from Melbourne until her coughing fit subsided.^[2]

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